World Health Organization : Year 2001 ; World Health Organization, Family and Community Health, Gender and Women's Health, No. 01.5: The Prevention and the Management of the Health Complications Policy Guidelines for Nurses and Midwives

By Tomris Turmen, Dr.

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Title:	World Health Organization : Year 2001 ; World Health Organization, Family and Community Health, Gender and Women's Health, No. 01.5: The Prevention and the Management of the Health Complications Policy Guidelines for Nurses and Midwives
Author:	Tomris Turmen, Dr.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


Citation APA MLA Chicago Turmen, Dr, B. T. (n.d.). World Health Organization : Year 2001 ; World Health Organization, Family and Community Health, Gender and Women's Health, No. 01.5. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

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Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
An estimated 100 to 140 million girls and women in the world today have undergone some form of female genital mutilation, and 2 million girls are at risk from the practice each year. The great majority of affected women live in sub-Saharan Africa, but the practice is also known in parts of the Middle East and Asia. Today, women with FGM are increasingly found in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States of America, largely as a result of migration from countries where FGM is a cultural tradition. FGM covers a range of procedures, but in the great majority of cases it involves the excision of the clitoris and the labia minora. At its most extreme, the procedure entails the excision of almost all the external genitalia and the stitching up of the vulva to leave only a tiny opening.Whatever form it takes, FGM is a violation of the human rights of girls and women; and it is a grave threat to their health.

Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 FOREWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 INTERNATIONAL RESOLUTIONS AND CONVENTIONS AGAINST FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 POLICY STATEMENTS REGARDING THE PREVENTION OF FGM AND THE MANAGEMENT OF GIRLS AND WOMEN WITH FGM COMPLICATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 POLICY NO. 1: Opening up of type 111 FGM (infibulation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 POLICY NO. 2: Refusal of requests to re-stitch an opened up vulva (re-infibulation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 POLICY NO. 3: Performance of functions that are outside the nurse´s/midwife's legal scope of practice . . . . . . . . . . 12 POLICY NO. 4: Documentation of FGM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 POLICY NO. 5 Prevention of female genital mutilation by nurses, midwives other health professionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 APPENDIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 SELECTED WHO PUBLICATIONS AND DOCUMENTS OF RELATED INTEREST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14